{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52562 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52562 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52562 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52562 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52562 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52562/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52562/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52562","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52562/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52562","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52562","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52562","GHSA-j56h-xwg2-4wc2","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52562"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A kernel bug allows list corruption when destroying slab caches, leading to system crashes or panics during module removal.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()\n\nAfter the commit in Fixes:, if a module that created a slab cache does not\nrelease all of its allocated objects before destroying the cache (at rmmod\ntime), we might end up releasing the kmem_cache object without removing it\nfrom the slab_caches list thus corrupting the list as kmem_cache_destroy()\nignores the return value from shutdown_cache(), which in turn never removes\nthe kmem_cache object from slabs_list in case __kmem_cache_shutdown() fails\nto release all of the cache's slabs.\n\nThis is easily observable on a kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y\nas after that ill release the system will immediately trip on list_add,\nor list_del, assertions similar to the one shown below as soon as another\nkmem_cache gets created, or destroyed:\n\n  [ 1041.213632] list_del corruption. next-\u003eprev should be ffff89f596fb5768, but was 52f1e5016aeee75d. (next=ffff89f595a1b268)\n  [ 1041.219165] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  [ 1041.221517] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!\n  [ 1041.223452] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n  [ 1041.225408] CPU: 2 PID: 1852 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B   W  OE      6.5.0 #15\n  [ 1041.228244] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n  [ 1041.231212] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0xae/0xb0\n\nAnother quick way to trigger this issue, in a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y,\nis to set slub_debug to poison the released objects and then just run\ncat /proc/slabinfo after removing the module that leaks slab objects,\nin which case the kernel will panic:\n\n  [   50.954843] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xa56b6b6b6b6b6b8b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n  [   50.961545] CPU: 2 PID: 1495 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B   W  OE      6.5.0 #15\n  [   50.966808] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n  [   50.972663] RIP: 0010:get_slabinfo+0x42/0xf0\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s\nreturn value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()","id":"CVE-2023-52562","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"drm/meson: fix memory leak on -\u003ehpd_notify callback","id":"CVE-2023-52563"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-db845c: Mark cont splash memory region as reserved","id":"CVE-2023-52561"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-03-02","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A kernel bug allows list corruption when destroying slab caches, leading to system crashes or panics during module removal.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52562/"}